Cragside

Off today with friends over from Oz and friends of theirs to Cragside, former home of Lord Armstrong, arms magnate, inventor and the first person to light his home with hydroelectric power. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/north-east/cragside/history-of-cragside

Cragside House
Victorian pergola in the garden.
Pool in the Formal Garden.
Waterlily in the Formal Garden.
The clock tower.
View of the house across the valley from the Formal Garden.
The kitchen.
Sitting room.
One of the original lightbulbs in the house. Invented around the same time as Edison’s version but without the patents and publicity.
Stained glass and statues on the staircase.
Stuffed bird of paradise. Could not work out how all the feathers stay up.
The fireplace in the Drawing Room. Made of Italian marble for this space, it is resting on a solid chunk of hillside to hold it up. Last time I visited they told us that there was damp getting down the back of it and they had not yet established how to solve it. Apparently it is still damp but they seem to have stopped it getting worse.
Simulation of Lord Armstrong’s workshop.

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